Schmerikon railway station
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| Location | Bahnhofstrasse Schmerikon, St. Gallen Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°13′30.576″N 8°56′36.175″E / 47.22516000°N 8.94338194°E | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 407 m (1,335 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke | ||||||||||||||
| Distance | 49.3 km (30.6 mi) from Sargans[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Südostbahn | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | PostAuto Schweiz buses[2] | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 995 (Tarifverbund Ostwind)[3] | ||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 1,400 per weekday[4] | ||||||||||||||
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Schmerikon railway station (German: Bahnhof Schmerikon) is a railway station situated in the municipality of Schmerikon in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is located next to the shore of Obersee on the Rapperswil to Ziegelbrücke line.[5][1]
Services
[edit]The station is served by St. Gallen S-Bahn services S6, which operates south-east to Schwanden via Ziegelbrücke and westward to Rapperswil, and S17, which operates between Rapperswil and Sargans via Ziegelbrücke. Both these lines run hourly, combining to provide a half-hourly service to Rapperswil and Ziegelbrücke.
As of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following S-Bahn services stop at Schmerikon railway station:[6]
- St. Gallen S-Bahn S6 / S17: half-hourly service between Rapperswil and Ziegelbrücke and hourly service to Schwanden / Linthal or Sargans.
History
[edit]The next railway station to the west is now Blumenau, but until 2004 it used to be Bollingen. Until December 2023, the station was served by the inter-regional Voralpen Express, which links Lucerne and St. Gallen.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Linthgebiet" (PDF). Postbus Switzerland. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2013-06-20.
- ^ "Rapperswil - Ziegelbrücke" (PDF) (in German). Swiss Federal Railways. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
External links
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Media related to Schmerikon railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Schmerikon railway station – SBB
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